So, I make a mean red beans and rice. My question to the group is this: If I make this in glory to his Holy Noodleage, will my red beans and rice be blessed by Him, even though it's not technically a pasta?

"You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!"-Unattrib

"We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house."-Bill Hicks

Pasta IS holy and all, but the FSM is pretty lenient. Also pretty drunk. He'd probably bless it without even realizing it isn't pasta. It's carbohydrates served up with something reddish, so that's close enough.

I'd be all over that stuff if it wasn't about a thousand miles away. Guess I'll have to get Mrs.T to whip up a batch.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

ET, the Extra Terrestrial wrote:I'd be all over that stuff if it wasn't about a thousand miles away. Guess I'll have to get Mrs.T to whip up a batch.

So you could say then, that red beans and rice didn't miss her?

"How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, 'This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant. God must be even greater than we dreamed'? Instead they say, 'No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.'" - Carl Sagan

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection." - Henri Poincaré

Helium Hands wrote:So, I make a mean red beans and rice. My question to the group is this: If I make this in glory to his Holy Noodleage, will my red beans and rice be blessed by Him, even though it's not technically a pasta?

We have flimsy moral standards. Not as flimsy as His, but still flimsy. If the Catholic Church can sell indulgences and keep all the money, but still claim that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle that it is for a rich man to enter heaven; then we can claim that the FSM blesses your holy plate of pasta even though it's made of rice and beans.

Be careful not to wander into the realms of transubstantiation, though. If you start claiming that the rice and beans actually turns into pasta (like the bread and wine actually does (or does not) turn into the body of Jesus), you might start a schism. Or the Reformation. Something like that, anyway.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

Roy Hunter wrote:Be careful not to wander into the realms of transubstantiation, though. If you start claiming that the rice and beans actually turns into pasta (like the bread and wine actually does (or does not) turn into the body of Jesus), you might start a schism. Or the Reformation. Something like that, anyway.

What am I - Catholic?!

"You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!"-Unattrib

"We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house."-Bill Hicks

Roy Hunter wrote:Be careful not to wander into the realms of transubstantiation, though. If you start claiming that the rice and beans actually turns into pasta (like the bread and wine actually does (or does not) turn into the body of Jesus), you might start a schism. Or the Reformation. Something like that, anyway.

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

It's reverse 20 questions.I ask you yes/no questions about me, and you respond with what you imagine that I might be or not be. In this way, we can build a brand new me from the ground up!

"You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!"-Unattrib

"We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house."-Bill Hicks

"I don't mean to sound bitter, cynical or cruel; but I am, so that's how it comes out." ~ Bill Hicks."To argue with a person who has renounced reason is like administering medicine to the dead." ~ Thomas Paine."One should not believe everything one reads on the internet." ~ Abraham Lincoln."If you're making a political point wearing a balaclava, you're a c***. It was true for the IRA and it's true now." ~ daftbeaker.

"Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens."("Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.")-- Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805)Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.-- Philip K DickOK, now let's look at four dimensions on the blackboard.-- Dr. JoyEnglish isn't much of a language for swearing. When I studied Ancient Greek I was delighted to discover a single word - Rhaphanidosthai - which translates roughly as "Be thou thrust up the fundament with a radish for adultery."

I will be making a new batch on Saturday. Everybody is invited to partake.

"You bypassed the Maginot line of logic and rationality and annexed the Sudetenland of irrational comparisons!"-Unattrib

"We live in a world where John Lennon was murdered, yet Barry Manilow continues to put out fucking albums. God-dammit! If you're gonna kill somebody, have some fucking taste. I'll drive you to Kenny Rogers' house."-Bill Hicks